London Trip Part I of III - Its a small blog world after all

February 2, 2006 · · Posted by Jordan Frank

I returned Sunday from a 5 day London trip which capped off an 8 day Pharmaceutical Competitive Intelligence conference tour. And have just now gotten over jet-lag, life-lag, and the desk clearing process required to allow focus here.

While in London, I made a point to see most of our resident customers and partners. On Thursday night I hosted a dinner at Memories of China (for the foodies out there: 67 Ebury Street, London) which is now at the top of my favorites list (warning: a restaurant generally must have at least one meal with "scorching hot'n'spicy" in its title to make my list)


Heading back from conference in San Francisco: Asian Mary (sake / vodka with wasabe bloody mary mix) would qualify Ponzu for Jordan on spice level. Braised soy/ginger boneless short ribs with asian veggies (chestnuts, ginko, lotus root, daikon, carrots) was great comfort food. yum.
February 3, 2006 | # | Greg Lloyd

I was naive enough to think that the group of two customers, a software partner Terry Bloxham from QL2, and a technology consultant would be fairly disjointed. Not so. Matt Mower of PAOGA met with Allan Engelhardt of CYBAEA earlier in the day. And I went to Dartmouth a few years before and lived in the house next to Jay Bregman of e-Courier.

Allan is one of the deeper and more wordly IT experts I have yet to confront, so his site and blog are certainly worth monitoring. And his photography skills aren't half bad either. (by the way, I am duly impressed by the image annotation functions at Flickr where the photo of our dinner meeting is stored).

I originally met Matt on a K-Log discussion board. In person, he is as entertaining in person as he on his blog, and no less opinionated (thats a good thing!).

ImageElsewhere in London, I met up for tea with Ross Mullenger of Vantis (previously Numerica) who was featured on the cover page of Internet Week UK in an article titled "Meet Joe Blog" back in September 2003. The original article and Traction case study is nowhere to be found on the net, but an extract appears in a shorter version titled "Dear Diary." Also, Newsgator did a nice case study story on Ross's deployment.

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